Cycle of Violence
Israel and Palestine
Much of the violence is under-reported leaving a distorted picture of the cycle of violence. From the start of the roadmap process, this blog will try to catalog any violence resulting in deaths on either side, as well as the number of wounded with one entry per event. It also includes violence against peace activists and charitable volunteers. Prior violence is cataloged for context only.
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Yeshiva students attack Palestinians, wound at least five: "almost lynched," according to military sources
Haaretz - Israel News: "17/03/2005 19:05 |Yeshiva students attack Palestinians, wound at least five | By Jonathan Lis, Amos Harel and Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondents, and Haaretz Service

Some 40 yeshiva students from a West Bank settlement attacked a group of eight Palestinian laborers on Thursday morning, wounding at least five of them.

Jewish students in Nahliel threw stones at the Palestinians and attacked them with clubs. The Palestinians were legally contracted to work in the West Bank settlement located west of Ramallah.

Military sources told Haaretz the Palestinians were severely beaten and that they were "almost lynched," an expression connoting an execution of defenseless victims.

The wounded Palestinians, one of them in serious condition, were evacuated to a Ramallah hospital.

"By the time the police reached the settlement, which is relatively isolated, the assailants had escaped," a police spokesman said. "But we are investigating the incident and expect to make arrests in the next few hours." ...

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